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All I want to do is sing on other people's records.
Neko Case
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Neko Case
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 8
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
Neko Richelle Case
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I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice and not just singing on ten all of time out of terror.
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Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.
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The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.
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I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
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I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.
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When you get an idea, it's not going to be a great idea until you push it. You’ve got to push it until it’s uncomfortable. And then you’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Does my project say to my audience what I want it to say?’ ”
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Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.
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Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.
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We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of looking cool. It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.
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When you're making records, you develop, and so you hear the things you want to move away from. It stings a little, but you know, you gotta own it too. You've got to just go, You know, I wasn't afraid to learn in front of people, so I give myself a little credit for not being afraid of anything.
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I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.
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We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.
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I like to think that I'm not old yet.
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The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.
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There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.
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I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.
Neko Case
I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.
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I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.
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I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently.
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Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.
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